Abrams: 1969 books
Wampum
How Indian Tribes, the Mafia, and an Inattentive Congress Invented Indian Gaming and Created a $28 Billion Gambling Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
In 2015, 239 Indian tribes operated 478 casinos, high-stakes bingo halls, and other gambling facilities on Indian reservations in 28 states that collectively earned 28.5 billion in gross gaming revenue. How did Indian gambling become such a lucrative and commonplace fixture of the American landscape?...
Si Lewen's Parade
An Artist's Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Si Lewen’s Parade is a timeless story told in a language that knows no country—a wordless epic that, despite its muteness, is more powerful than the written or the spoken word. First published in 1957, The Parade is a lost classic, newly discovered, remastered, and presented by Art Spiegelman,...
Reclaimed Wood
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
**The first handbook on reclaimed wood, combining useful information, rich history, and design ideas **
Wood reclaimed from old houses, factories, barns, water tanks, and boardwalks has become a valuable commodity, treasured for the patina that gives witness to its history. Our ancestors built...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Dale Chihuly, the hugely popular artist who works in glass, celebrates his 70th birthday in 2011. Tacoma Art Museum, in his hometown, owns more than 150 examples of his work and is mounting an exhibition in his honor. Both this book and the exhibition showcase Chihuly's enduring interest in the arts...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
During his 50-year association with the Village Voice, Fred W. McDarrah (1926–2007) covered the city’s downtown scenes, producing an unmatched and encyclopedic visual record of people, movements, and events. McDarrah frequented the bars, cafés, and galleries where writers, artists, and musicians...
Coastal Blues
Mrs. Howard's Guide to Decorating with the Colors of the Sea and Sky
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
From design expert (and interior design readers’ favorite) Phoebe Howard comes a new book focused on decorating with beautiful blue color schemes. Coastal Blues is a glorious decor book filled with inspiring images of beach houses, seacoast getaways, vacation cottages, and luxurious seaside manors....
Wet Hot American Summer
The Annotated Screenplay
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
At long last, this is the definitive Wet Hot American Summer book fans have been clamoring for! Screenwriters David Wain and Michael Showalter take pen to page and create a hilarious, behind-the-scenes annotated version of the original screenplay that launched a thousand Halloween costumes. They provide...
The Senecans
Four Men and Margaret Thatcher
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A year after the death of Margaret Thatcher, a young historian arrives to ask Peter Stothard, Editor of the Time Literary Supplement and former editor of The Time, some sharp questions about his memories of the Thatcher era. During the interview the offices from where he long observed British politics...
City of Ravens
The Extraordinary History of London, the Tower and its Famous Ravens
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Yet the truth is that they arrived in Victorian times as props in gory plays for tourists. But the ravens' past has far more high drama. From the plains of the North American Indians to the arctic tundra, all the way to the Tower of London, they have been symbols of cruelty, of survival through adversity,...
Tiny World Terrariums
A Step-by-Step Guide to Easily Contained Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Terrariums are a vibrant, unique way to inject a little greenery into any home. In Tiny World Terrariums, authors Katy and Michelle of Brooklyn’s celebrated Twig Terrariums offer step-by-step instructions for building your own, from selecting glass containers to layering soil and filtration to adding...
Songversations
Conversation Starters about Music and Life (100 Questions)
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Each of the 50 record-shaped cards in this conversation deck is printed with a music-themed question on each side (100 questions total). The questions range in format: some invoke songs that are tied to memories (name a song from your school dance); others prompt you to choose an ideal soundtrack...
Gender Medicine
The Groundbreaking New Science of Gender- and Sex-Related Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Over millions of years, male and female bodies developed crucial physiological differences to improve the chances for human survival. These differences have become culturally obsolete with the overturning of traditional gender roles. But they are nevertheless very real, and they go well beyond the...
Understand Rap
Explanations of Confusing Rap Lyrics You and Your Grandma Can Understand
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Rap songs are famous for their double entendres, clever turns of phrase, and general ingenuity, but that doesn’t mean things always make sense the first time around. Enter Understand Rap, a very funny pop-cultural reference book based on the website of the same name, which precisely explains the...
by Imam Al-Ghazali
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
On the Duties of Brotherhood shows how brotherhood can be an aid to spiritual purification and the perfection of one's worship, as well as a source of help and comfort in the world. Readers will find the road to fellowship—by way of forgiveness, prayer, sincerity, loyalty, and consideration—and be enlightened by stories that illustrate the doctrine of brotherhood.